Cuff-holder



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VILLIAM Dl/VIGHT ELVELL, OF MARYSVILLE, KANSAS.

CUFF-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION formng part of Letters Patent No. 436,222, dated September 9, 1890.

Application filed June 27, 1889. Renewed August 7, 1890. Serial No. 361,354. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM DWIGHT EL- WELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Marysville, in the county of Marshall and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ouff-Holders, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the aceompanying drawings, in which- Fignre 1 is a perspective view of a cnff having attached to it one of my improved holders; Fig. 2, a bottom view of one of the holders; Fig. 3, a similar view of a slight modification of the device; Fig. 4, a perspeotive view of one of the spring holding-arms.

The object of the invention is to provide an extremely simple and inexpensive device for adj ustably attaohing a cutf to a shirt-sleeve, as Will be fully hereinafter specified.

In the drawings, a designates a bar of suitable length provided with a sliding clasp or clip b. Attached to the under side of this bar, near its forward end, are two sprihg-arms c o, provided with hooks at their rear ends. The tendency of these arms is to press out- Wardly. The arms may be formed integral with each other and connected bya small ooil located and secured to the lower side of the bar, as shown in Fig. 2.

The device is applied as shown in Fig. 1- that is to say, the spring-arms are pressed together, as shown'in Fig. 2, and the hooks inserted in the rear button-hole of the cufi, the outward tendency of the arms and the hooks serving to seourely attach the device to the cnff. The wristband of the shirt-sleeve is then inserted in the clasp and the oufiis attached. By reason of the adjustability of the clasp, the oulf may be readily adj usted with respect to the end of the coat-sleeve.

As shown in Fig.v 3, the bara maybe formed of two wires, and these wires may be continuations of the spring-arms.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I clairn, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As an improved article of manufaoture, a oufi-holder consisting of the bar a, provided with an adjust-able clasp to' clamp the shirt sleeve, and a pair of spring-arms c, secured to the forward end of 'the said bar a and eX- tending rearwardly therefrom, these arms being provided with hooks to engage the button-hole of the cutf, the tendenoy of these arms being to spread, as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence oftwo witnesses.

W. DWIGHT ELWELL. Vitnesses:

lT. I. HATFIELD,

B. L. GAMBLE. 

